March 9, 2022

Biden’s Russia-Ukraine diplomacy is a debacle

ByThomas Lifson at American Thinker:

Far from rallying the free world as its leader in reacting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden’s diplomatic team has been publicly snubbed and humiliated by even putative allies.Rather than “restoring respect” for the U.S., as Biden promised to do, his administration has severely damaged America’s standing as a country to be heeded.

You would not know it from the saturation-level media coverage of the ongoing crisis, focused as it is on demonizing Putin for the crime of invading a sovereign neighbor.But without even so much as defending our own border, much less invading another country, the Biden administration has managed to alienate a large share of the world.

Two serious public rebukes from allies Tuesday are signaling to the world community that America’s views and initiatives don’t matter as much as they used…